Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speakers stressed the importance of personal contacts in finding summer positions. Each speaker remained after the formal program ended to answer questions...
City Councilor Saundra Graham said last week that Sergeant Hussey "has had plenty of complaints against him," and that although "people [often] don't have the opportunity to file a formal complaint," she has heard many informal complaints against Hussey...
Albania's economy cannot improve, however, without an opening to the outside world. Toward the end of the Hoxha era, Tirane began to accept that fact by increasing diplomatic contacts. Albania now has formal relations with 104 countries, double that of the late '70s. And at the party congress, Alia called for further increases in foreign trade. A key step in this direction came earlier this year when the Albanian stretch of a 40-mile rail link, for freight trains only, was opened between the town of Shkoder and the Yugoslav city of Titograd. The Albanians have also made deals...
...idea that landscapes like this are fantasies, mere projections of psychosis on the mundane, is wrong and does no justice to Van Gogh's exquisite sense of reality. The matter is more complicated than that. It is true that Van Gogh applied the formal system he preferred to the Provencal landscape: the rapid, shifting notation of dots, speckles and slashes in the drawings, with the white paper burning like noon light behind the sepia ink; the characteristic spirals of the paintbrush, which link back to the decorative line work of Edo Japanese screens and point forward to the whiplash rhythms...
After 74 days and 1,000 deaths, the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands ended in a formal British victory, right? Wrong. While the British did defeat the Argentines in battle, no cease-fire was ever signed between the two belligerents, so technically the war goes...